# Phone addiction Let's face it. We're all completely addicted. It's actually a problem, and candidly I'm not entirely sure how to fix it besides a clean break and full dopamine detox. The issue is there are so many useful things which can be done on the phones, and technology at large, in addition to the unproductive things. It's like a lie baked in truth told by someone you rely on. How do you untangle it? We've made ourselves dependent on these devices and completely warped our own perspectives of reality. It's at the point now where I actually feel like a slave to it at times. I unconsciously check it, look for it, and find myself trying to use it even if I know logically there's nothing good I want to use it for. I was born in 1994. I cannot even imagine how much more deadly this virtual heroin is for the even younger people of today. There is an ever increasing percentage of the population who has grown up in a mostly virtual world. Games, interactions with friends, learning, connection with family, ordering things, everything - absolutely everything - is done online and mostly on mobile. The world is going to look very different in just a few years, and I'm not sure it's for the better.